"Whoosh!"
A figure flashed through the void. Dressed in white, a lightning blade in hand and his expression cold, Jiang Yin blocked the way in front of Xie Guhong.
Seeing him, Fan Yue's gaze tightened, and a trace of astonishment and instinctive panic flashed across his face.
But in an instant, he suppressed those emotions.
"Second Junior Brother, why have you come back again?"
Jiang Yin stared at the figure before him, so familiar yet so strange.
Disbelief showed on his face.
"Eldest Senior Brother, why? Why did you slaughter Starshine City?
"And why did you stage everything yourself and fabricate the news that the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree had been stolen?"
Facing Jiang Yin's questioning, Fan Yue said calmly, "Our youngest junior brother, Gu Chenfeng, told you all this, didn't he?"
"That's right!"
Jiang Yin nodded.
"Oh... how did he discover all this?" Fan Yue looked curious.
Jiang Yin spoke coldly.
"From the moment he discovered that the Immortal Tree Old Sect Master Xie stole was a fake, our youngest junior brother sensed something was wrong.
"To use a branch and an Immortal Fruit to fabricate such an exquisite Immortal Tree, convincing enough to pass for the real thing, was beyond any ordinary person.
"Only someone extremely familiar with the Immortal Tree, who could often approach the Cloudzhi Immortal Tree, could possibly do it."
"There could also have been a traitor in the City Lord's Manor. Did he suspect me just because of that?" Fan Yue sneered disdainfully.
"Of course that wasn't all.
"When the Black-Clad Man who seized the Immortal Tree blew himself up, our youngest junior brother detected a trace of your Divine Sense fluctuations. He suspected that the Black-Clad Man's self-destruction had something to do with you.
"Also, at the City Lord's Manor's victory banquet, our youngest